LETTER: Tuition rising, employment sparse

To the editor:    

    The cost for obtaining an education has never been greater. The Wall Street Journal continually reports recent college graduates have never had a harder time finding work, yet the cost of education continues to rise. Human resource managers are reporting between 300 and 400 applicants per entry-level position. Over half of them are unemployed industry-level professionals with 5-10 years of working experience.  

    Furthermore, the professional, working industry holds no regard for the upcoming generation coining us “millennials” or “the entitled generation.” So when I walk out of an interview with my 100-page portfolio that was just called “cute,” I’m feeling less like a person with accomplishments and more like Rodney Dangerfield when he says, “I get no respect.”

    It’s fine. I didn’t want to work at Burger King anyway.

Andrew Yerka